Lightning strikes hit anywhere so one expert goes over what Arizona homeowners can do to protect their houses from lightning.

It is faulty logic to assume that a metal roof attracts lightning strikes similarly to a lightning rod, because lightning rods are not made to "attract" lightning. Rather, they are made to channel ...

Each time I’m there, I look outside her living room window and see the lightning protection rod on the roof of the house across the street. It has always amused and perplexed me why a lightning ...

The standard way of protecting buildings (and their occupants) from lightning is pretty simple: You stick a lightning rod on the roof, and then some kind of conducting channel that takes the huge ...

The cost of lightning protection systems can vastly vary from less than a hundred to thousands of dollars. In any case, ... Usually, a home's building material does not affect the chances of being hit ...

What You Get Riley says protection for the average two-story home costs around $3,000. "For a basic home, anywhere from $2,000 to $4,000," Riley said, "consists of five roof points and three to ...

The system on Melton's Northlake home consists of seven, 10-inch lightning rods positioned around the roof and a network of copper wires running from the rods to the ground.

It’s a reality that thatched roofs are extremely popular in South Africa, both within many rural communities and a number of upmarket developments. Constructed of soft material, such as straw, reed, ...